Recovering Your Organisation

“5 steps to getting your Organisation back on its feet”

• Maintain Business Vision:
  ... don't lose sight of your (strategic & tactical) vision


• Motivate People:
  ... motivating your people to want to change is not an option. Change starts with you, take a long hard look in the mirror; if you can do it so can they...


• Cut through Bureaucracy:
  ... Communicate with Enthusiam, Energise your Thinking, Listen with both ears and eyes, Execute and Take Action


• Changing Mindsets:
  ... Re-shaping the old way with new culture


• Manage with Less:
  ... Adopting a lean(er) culture and structure, the timing is everything, act fast to deliver 100% efficiency to your customers inside and outside your organisation

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Best Job in the World

“1st July start, deadline closes on 22 Feb 2009”

Are you ready for to take on the "best job in the world" - Can you become the new caretaker of the "Great Barrier Reef" in Queensland Australia!

Exit the credit crunch and enjoy an alternative uplifting career challenge for 6 months of this year starting July 1st on a pro-rata salary of 70k (AUD$150,000) plus accommodation on Hamilton Island.

Tourism Queensland will organise a schedule of travel and events on the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. Your schedule could include sampling a new luxury spa treatment at qualia on Hamilton Island, trying out new snorkelling gear on Heron Island, or bushwalking on Hinchinbrook Island.

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Changing Team Behaviours and Attitudes

“ If you want to change an individual's behaviour or attitudes to a more desirable end - at any time and in any cirumstance ...”

You need to provide answers to two key motivational questions:

What's in it for me? and Why should I care?

Alexander Hiam in Motivational Management outlines 15 different motivators "incentive profile" for employees to consider:

Affiliation, Self-expression, Achievement, Security, Career growth, Excitement, Status, Purpose, Competition, Recognition, Consideration, Autonomy, Responsibility, Personal needs


Most everone wants to work in an environment where there is trust, good communications, the opportunity for contribution, emotional support, clear goals and feedback, and espirit de corps. Not to mention 'reap the fruis of our efforts'

To modify your team's Behaviour and attitudes, as well as to further motivate them to higher levels of performance, you must understand and respond to each person's needs.

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Managing change the US way

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“A new way to motivate your CEO: tell the world you've been actively trying to hire his replacement.”

That seems to be the strategy of Tom Hicks, the American businessman who bought Premiership football club Liverpool last year alongside George Gillett. He admitted to the local paper this week that the pair spoke to Jurgen Klinsmann, the former Germany boss, about taking over as Liverpool manager. When it was pointed out to the ever-astute Texan that Liverpool already had a manager – Rafael Benitez, the man who’s guided the club to two Champions League finals in his first three years on the job – Hicks suggested Klinsmann was as an ‘insurance policy’ in case Benitez took another job, or if communication between manager and chairmen failed to improve.
Apparently Hicks’ idea was to draw a line under the speculation by speaking out in support of his manager. But we’re not sure how you dampen speculation about your manager’s position by admitting to talks with another manager. Equally, we doubt that talking publicly about a communication breakdown is likely to resolve a communication breakdown. Either way, Liverpool’s top brass – including co-owner Gillet – are apparently spitting feathers over his latest indiscretion.

When Hicks (and Gillett) took over last year, most Liverpool fans were delighted. The man who had built a major US private equity firm (Hicks Muse Tate & Furst) would surely bring some proper US-style management discipline to a club that seemed to have missed the commercial boat. Despite its huge worldwide support, stemming from its European success in the 1970s and 1980s, Liverpool had been left in the shadow of local rival Manchester United – on and off the field. The new US owners would surely smarten up the club’s act.

Instead, they’ve done exactly the opposite. Hicks and Gillet have spent more time in the sports pages than the team – if they’re not fighting amongst themselves, or failing to refinance the loan they used to buy the club, or trying to flog a stake to Dubai, they’ve been falling out very publicly with their manager (who hasn’t done himself any favours by whinging to the papers about his lack of transfer funds). And this at a club that has never washed its dirty linen in public.

If this was a standard company, Benitez would be out on his ear already (and probably suing for constructive dismissal, on the basis of that interview). But he has one big advantage that your average CEO doesn’t have – the presence of 50,000 fanatical supporters chanting his name every fortnight. Hicks will be a brave man to take on the fans, and if he does it’s unlikely to do a great deal for Anglo-US relations in the North West. A banner at the last FA Cup game summed it up nicely: ‘Thanks Yanks – More Friendly Fire’...

Source: Management Today

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Compete to win

How motivated are you to compete to win! ...

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to model success. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz used this powerful technique in the creation of his own company. Whilst on a vacation to Italy he saw how the coffee shop played an integral role in the social lives of Italians. It was a place where friends met, could spend hours at a time mingling. Howard Schultz put it

“Seeing this, I thought to myself, Why not open a coffee bar in Seattle?”

And with that he set the wheels in motion for the creation of what is now one of the most famous brands in the world, Starbucks. Modelling masters can help you achieve rapid success because you are implementing strategies that have been tried and tested, and work. Road to success is straight ahead, stay motivated.

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Brainstorming Step 1

State your challenge correctly. In order to get the right ideas, you need to ensure that you are giving the brainstorm session participants the right challenge.

“Otherwise you could end up with a lot of ideas which do not actually solve your problem.”

Define your problem or issue as a creative challenge. Creative challenges typically start with: "In what ways might we...?" or "How could we...?" Your creative challenge should be concise, to the point and exclude any information other than the challenge itself. For example: "In what ways might we improve product X?" or "How could we encourage more ... ?"

Do's and Dont's

1. Avoid squelching or criticism someone elses idea


2. Encourage mixed participants to get combined creativity


3. Be an enthusiastic facilitator


4. Have a well stated challenge


5. Choose good environment free from disturbances

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Motivation Life Plan

Motivation Life Plan - Your memory tells you how great you feel, and that motivates you more. Everything is at our fingertips in our life, but do you want to stay in your comfort zone and put up with your lot, or are you ready to get up and get out and enjoy your one life. Do you watch TV more than picking up a book and reading. As you get into a pattern and a system, your plan goes by the wayside ...
If you can put so much effort into planning a wedding like if your life depends on it, then your life plan is no different, be committed to yourself.
First 30 minutes and last 30 minutes of the our day our minds is most susceptible. One of the best things to do when you fall asleep is dreaming, thinking about our goals. It really crucial that we do positive things to keep the momentum flowing. Uber Coach best advice is - to have an elastic band and get into the habit of not tolerating negative thinking by pulling it, that way you get to associate negative thinking with pain.

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